Isn’t she a darling?? Well guess what happens when you put them together?

You get Patty the Cow

She was a lot harder than I thought, a lot harder than Mrs.Perkins but after unpicking and realigning and some hand sewing here and there she finally came together. I think she looks great, but I know there are a few imperfections but she is still the cutest!!

She thinks so too and is now found sitting in random spots throughout my house.

Just chilling on the laptop…

If you think she is cute, wait to you see what I did with the left-over fabric!! More on that later.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Just a quick post today to show you more of my sketchbook. Nothing too exciting but something I wish to share.

I have mainly focused on animals in my past drawings but I would really love to do portraits, people are very hard though, well for me they are.

So let’s break it down bit by bit, and my first bit is an eye… just one.

I’m quite pleased with this, especially the folds on the left hand side of the eye. This was just roughly done in 2b pencil and only took about 15 minutes. But there will be more to come, practice makes perfect as they say.

I hope you’ve enjoyed another peek into the drawing side of my life, let me know what think.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Finally finishing my quilt the other day and ticking it off my goals for 2012 made me realise I should really go back and have a look at them and see if I am on track 4 months later. So here goes nothing… Be prepared for a lot incoherent rambling.

Goal 1 was to craft more.

And more specifically complete the following projects

Finish my quilt

Gallery Wall for Kitchen –I have the quilt made and bought some frames and have ideas in my mind, does that count??

Minimal junk food ( I am only human and know I have weaknesses, but limit my self to only one or two times a week)

Drinking at least 2 litres of water a day

Cooking with fresh ingredients

Planning meals ahead of time

So this is really going well on paper…except the exercise. I am eating really healthy except for the occasional treat and drinking lots of water, and I have actually lost 8kg. It’s not much in the big scheme of things but I am getting there.

Goal 4 was Grow my Blog and make some Friends

I am pretty happy how this is going, I am posting consistently and slowly building followers. At the end of the day this is just a hobby, it’s my way of expressing myself, I don’t plan to make money from this space nor do I have the time or knowledge for it. I am just having fun I work full time so I just put in what I can when I can.

I still feel like we’re going through the motions a bit, but we’ve had some great athletic carnivals this year so far, lovely lunches and breakfasts on Sunday and some game playing and jewellery making with my daughter. So with the time we have I think we’re doing alright.

There you go, my goals in review. It was a bit of ramble as you have all probably come to expect from me at times. Did anyone else make goals, plans or resolutions this year? Have you stuck to them? If anyone has ideas, tips or tricks to help me stay on track please let me know. I will be all ears and I promise I wont babble on too much.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Well I am happy to say that it’s finally finished!!! Weeks and weeks of hand appliqueing, losing a panel because my dog got hold of it and thought it would be nice to play with in the backyard (thankfully it wasn't ruined, only a bit dirty, nothing a good hand wash couldn't fix), and miscutting my original fabric and having to rush off to buy more before the fabric shop shut was well worth it. I am very happy with the way that this quilt has turned out!

Black and white my favourite combo!! I bought this in a kit many many moons ago, I can’t even remember who it’s by. But as I said I am absolutely delighted in the way it has turned out. It’s going up on the wall and will be a major focus of my gallery wall when I get around to completing it.

Finishing this quilt and doing a gallery wall was part of my goals for this year, so I am glad to have one ticked off…woohoo!!! It’s just over 4 months since I declared my goals to the world so I might do a quick update later this week to let everyone know how I’m going. What do you guys think?

Anyways thanks for your patience with this reveal it took a lot longer than anticipated to complete due to not actually doing any work on it for a long while, but it’s finally done and as I mentioned before I am ecstatic with the finished project. (sorry I ramble when I am excited). This is my third quilt ever and I really love making them, I will have to start planning my next one I think.

Just look at those colours all propped together, how can you not be inspired!

So with that in mind this is what I came up with.

I worked with what I had, I know my colours are a bit different but I loved the colours in the inspirational photo all lined up together so much that I wanted my card to reflect the same. Hence the multi-coloured picket fence.

Mmmm sorbet! This is just lots of old scrappy bits of cardstock, some bakers twine, rub ons that have been in my stash for ever and making memories die cuts. Oh and some kindy glitz to bling up the butterflies a bit.

So this week will be the reveal of my quilt I am really looking forward to showing you all that and don’t forget to check out my pins of the day on twitter.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Easter is over for another year I hope everyone had a safe and happy one.

Today I am here to show you another card, you will probably see a lot more in the coming weeks as I need to build to my stash up again and I have also just joined up to Love Letters: Random Cards of Kindness Inc. This is a wonderful organisation who give cards to children in hospitals throughout the U.S. I would love to do something here but I am yet to find anything so if anyone knows of anything similar in Australia please let me know.

Also if you are a card maker and have an overabundance of cards think about donating.

It is very clean and simple, but I like it. I made the flowers myself by cutting out paper in a flower shape, crinkling and layering, then popped a brad in the middle to hold it all together. I also added a touch of bling to the edges because when in doubt add glitter.

I have also used my liquid pearls to highlight the centre of each little flower on the blue paper and believe it or not the background paper is more of a peach than a pink, it’s just my stupid photography skills did not pick that up.

Exciting things this week, you will see as I said earlier more cards from me as well as the quilt reveal!

Also if you’re on twitter look me up as I have been tweeting a random pin of the day, you never know what you might find.